10 Nasty Tesla Model 3 Charts
This is just nasty — what Tesla and its wild young Model 3 are doing to the old guard. Just take a look at the charts (and my notes if you feel like it).
This is just nasty — what Tesla and its wild young Model 3 are doing to the old guard. Just take a look at the charts (and my notes if you feel like it).
In the EV internet, there’s a lot of shade. Far too much shade. People throw shade on every electric vehicle under the sun. There are critics of the Nissan LEAF, critics of the Chevy Volt & Chevy Bolt, critics of the BMW i3, the Ford Energi models, Tesla’s premium-class cars, and everything else.
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week centered around some of the most popular electric cars in the world — the Tesla Model 3, Kia Niro EV, and … Tesla Model 3. There were also some surprises — a solar tech advancement, an electric pickup truck concept, Elon smokin’ weed (or not), Formula E, and more. Check out the full list of the 20 most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week:
Anecdotes are anecdotes. I don’t have a Tesla spreadsheet in front of me showing definitively showing that demand and deliveries of the company’s Model 3 electric sedan are spiking. However, I’ve collected information from a few sources in the past week that indicate there has been a steep rise in both.
NIO is one of the electric vehicle (EV) startups we’ve been most eagerly watching over the past couple of years. It has the backing of some solid Chinese billionaires, has presented an attractive vehicle design in the car class humans now love most, and has ambitious autonomous and connected vehicle plans.
In our first week tracking Tesla headlines across major media outlets, several things stood out to us. One of the big takeaways was that a few major media sites routinely publish a ton of articles about Tesla. Furthermore, those same media sites have demonstrated an overall negative slant on the company.
I’m a huge fan of the media and high-quality journalism. The free press is a cornerstone of democracy, and much more. The largest media outlets in the world have the resources, passion, and expertise to do tremendous investigative reporting that is invaluable to society. But they are dropping the ball on Tesla, misleading consumers in a highly biased manner.
CleanTechnica’s Maarten Vinkhuyzen recently took a deep dive into a UBS report about the Tesla Model 3. The finding was that the report demonstrated tremendous ignorance at best or intentionally misleading nonsense at worst.
Below are the most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week. Aside from Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, stories covered the Hyundai Kona, an electric camper, the Mercedes EQC, and more.
Volkswagen is a fascinating case when it comes to the electric transport transition. With some interesting news coming in this week, we are revisiting some of the key facts and forecasts we have from the company.